Associate Director, Software Engineering

Location: 

Xi'an, SN, CN, -


Brand:  HSBC
Area of Interest:  Technology
Closing Date:  Hybrid Worker
Date:  30 Jun 2026

Job description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

 

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.

 

Business: Asia & Middle East Technolog

Job ID: 50203

 

Principal responsibilities

  • The role will carry out some or all of the following activities:
  • Own technical delivery of PUMA Core Platform.
  • Provide extensive experience in designing and developing of significant applications.
  • Adopt Group FSA standard and work with regional architect on architecture alignment.
  • Write and own standards, define product change strategies and to reach identified visions.
  • Create and contribute to solutions designs and make judgement calls.
  • Continuously contribute to code and review other's code for best practice.
  • Responsible for automating the continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline
  • Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered
  • Develop business cases benefits of addressing technical debt / platform improvement.
  • Communicate clearly, acting as liaison between engineering teams and senior management, translating technical details into business strategies.
  • Remove impediments to team's productivity and direct collaboration with Product Owners without the involvement of intermediary roles such as architects, technical leads, business analysts, scrum master and project managers.
  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise in an area such as: devOps, security, accessibility, agile, production governance etc.

 

Requirements

  • Candidate should hold a university graduate certificate majored in IT or equivalent experience
  • A minimum 12 years of significant hands-on working experience in software requirement, design, development, testing and support
  • Proven experience in designing, architecting, and implementing platforms or frameworks
  • Solid technical skills in Java, Springboot/Cloud, Typescript/React, Python, SQL is a plus
  • Technical experience on shell script, MQ, Docker, Kubernetes. Project experiences on Google Cloud Platform is a plus
  • Strong experience on design and implement DevOps Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Pipleline with DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible, etc
  • Good command in spoken and written English as working language
  • Understanding of customer’s needs and delivering excellent services with agile/DevOps manners
  • Proactive, self-motivated, independent working ability, high sense of responsibility and a good team player

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You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited Xian Branch***